The Patchwork Bike is a 2016 children's book by Maxine Beneba Clarke and illustrated by Van Thanh Rudd.

A girl who lives at the edge of a "no-go desert" describes the titular bike that she and her brothers made out of found materials.

The book was well reviewed, receiving starred reviews in The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books,[1] The Horn Book Magazine,[2] Kirkus Reviews,[3] Publishers Weekly,[4] and School Library Journal, who also named it to their list of best picture books of 2018.

[5] The New York Times Book Editor Maria Russo called it an "exuberant... Clarke’s poetically compressed language hurtles joyfully along, while Rudd’s illustrations, made on cardboard boxes with spirited swaths of paint, burst with irrepressible life.

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